Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1916 — Figures Show Strength Of Watson As Candidate. [ARTICLE]

Figures Show Strength Of Watson As Candidate.

The strength of James E. Watson, republican candidat efor U. S. senarepublican candidate for U. S. senashown in figures that have been compiled on the campaign of 1908, when he .made a better record in a losing fight than any of the republican candidates for governor in the central and eastern cities. The election statistics show that he made a better record than Governor Hughes of New York and other candidates who are popular with the rank and file of the party throughout the country. An effort has been made to prove that since Mr. Watson ran votes behind Taft in the campaign of 1908 that he did not conduct a successful campaign in comparison with the republican campaigns in other states. While Mr. Watson ran only 14,953 votes behind Taft that year, Governor Hughes of Neiw York ran 133,000 behind Taft. The former president’s majority in Illinois was 179,122 and Governor Deneen’s majority was 23,164, or 155,958 less than Taft’s. The majority of Taft in Ohio was 69,591, while the republican candidate for governor was defeated and Harmon, was elected with a majority of 19,372. Governor Warren’s majority in Michigan was 50,556 less than Taft’s. Taft’s majority in Minnesota was 85,822 and Johnson, the democratic candidate, was elected with a majority of 20,178. Taft’s majority in Massachusetts was 110,423, while Draper, the republican candidate for governor, received 60,267 less votes than Taft. Mr. Watson’s friends are taking as unusually significant the figures relating to the race in New York in 1908 where Hughes, who is considered a very popular man in the party and whose name is mentioned frequently as a leading presidential possibility, received 133,040 less votes than Taft. Watson they declare, despite the nature of the campaign in Indiana in 1908, made a better record than almost any of the gubernatorial candidates east--of the Mississippi river.